Hastings, West Virginia
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Hastings, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community located in Wetzel County in the northern part of the state.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hastings, West Virginia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5804933 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hastings, West Virginia Context triple: [Wetzel County, West Virginia, hasSettlement, Hastings, West Virginia]
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A.
Hinton, West Virginia
Hinton, West Virginia is a small historic city in Summers County known as a gateway to outdoor recreation in the New River Gorge region, including the nearby Bluestone National Scenic River.
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B.
Hendricks, West Virginia
Hendricks, West Virginia is a small town in Tucker County known for its scenic location near the confluence of the Blackwater and Dry Fork rivers in the Appalachian region.
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C.
Hedgesville, West Virginia
Hedgesville, West Virginia, is a small town in the Eastern Panhandle region known for its historic character and rural Appalachian setting.
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D.
Williamstown, West Virginia
Williamstown, West Virginia, is a small city in the Mid-Ohio Valley region known for its location along the Ohio River and proximity to Parkersburg.
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E.
St. George, West Virginia
St. George, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community in Tucker County that historically served as the county seat and lies along the Cheat River in the Appalachian region.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hastings, West Virginia Target entity description: Hastings, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community located in Wetzel County in the northern part of the state.
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A.
Hinton, West Virginia
Hinton, West Virginia is a small historic city in Summers County known as a gateway to outdoor recreation in the New River Gorge region, including the nearby Bluestone National Scenic River.
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B.
Hendricks, West Virginia
Hendricks, West Virginia is a small town in Tucker County known for its scenic location near the confluence of the Blackwater and Dry Fork rivers in the Appalachian region.
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C.
Hedgesville, West Virginia
Hedgesville, West Virginia, is a small town in the Eastern Panhandle region known for its historic character and rural Appalachian setting.
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D.
Williamstown, West Virginia
Williamstown, West Virginia, is a small city in the Mid-Ohio Valley region known for its location along the Ohio River and proximity to Parkersburg.
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E.
St. George, West Virginia
St. George, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community in Tucker County that historically served as the county seat and lies along the Cheat River in the Appalachian region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | unincorporated community ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| county | Wetzel County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingBody | Wetzel County government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasName |
Hastings
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hastings, West Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | rural community ⓘ |
| isPopulatedPlace | true ⓘ |
| isSmallSettlement | true ⓘ |
| isUnincorporated | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Northern West Virginia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
West Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ Wetzel County, West Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInCountrySubdivision | State of West Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Northern Panhandle region of West Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| partOf | Appalachia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalAddressRegion | Wetzel County, West Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadAccessRegion | Wetzel County road network ⓘ |
| state | West Virginia ⓘ |
| timeZoneDaylightSaving | UTC−04:00 ⓘ |
| timeZoneStandard | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| usesCountryCode | US NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Hastings, West Virginia Description of subject: Hastings, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community located in Wetzel County in the northern part of the state.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.